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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What magazine did Barnard president Debora Spar write to in 2012 discussing successful women and guilt, according to the author in Chapter 11: “Working Together Toward Equality”?
(a) Time.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) The Atlantic.
(d) San Francisco.

2. In what year did Sheryl Sandberg earn her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1997.
(d) 1991.

3. What Stanford professor is cited in Chapter 11: “Working Together Toward Equality” as having said, “We need to look out for one another, work together, and act more like a coalition”?
(a) Deborah Gruenfeld.
(b) Cameron Anderson.
(c) Judith Rodin.
(d) Rosalind Einhorn.

4. Who is the CEO of American Express that the author says acknowledges sexism and bias in his meetings, according to the author in Chapter 10: “Let’s Start Talking About It”?
(a) Frank Flynn.
(b) Vittorio Colao.
(c) Cameron Anderson.
(d) Ken Chenault.

5. According to the author in Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave,” what percentage of mothers whose husband’s earnings landed in the top 5% were out of the labor force in 2006?
(a) 43%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 90%.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All,” the author describes going to a business conference with her children and taking the eBay plane. What did her daughter contract during this trip?

2. Of Yale alumni who had reached their forties by 2000, what percentage of the women remained in the workforce, according to the author in Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave”?

3. The author states in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All” that in 2009, married middle-income parents worked about how many more hours per week than in 1979?

4. The author asserts in Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave,” “When husbands work fifty or more hours per week, wives with children are” what percent “more likely to quit their jobs than wives with children whose husbands work less”?

5. The author states in Chapter 6: “Seek and Speak Your Truth” that “the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sandberg describe as an ideal partner for women to succeed alongside in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner”?

2. What study does the author cite in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner” as an indication of the power a partner has in a woman’s career choices?

3. How did Elise Scheck describe her experiences during pregnancy, according to the author in Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave”?

4. What did Sharon Proczter say of “having it all” in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All”?

5. Why does the author say that women dropping out of the workplace in anticipation of later conflicts is a problem today in Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave”?

6. What does the author write of Nora Ephron in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All”?

7. What barriers does the author discuss in the beginning of Chapter 6: “Seek and Speak Your Truth”?

8. What anecdote does the author open with in Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave”?

9. What does Sandberg say often creates a double standard and compels women to leave the workplace in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner”?

10. What study regarding “gatekeeping behaviors” is discussed in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner”?

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